I am using Internet Downlaod manager for downloading the files such as mp3, videos, documents and much more. Basically every time when i started downloading from a website he asks us to set a path, ...

I want multi commander to be in a clean state when I start it: only a single tab at each page.
Currently it has the same number of tabs there were when I closed it last time. I unchecked everything ...

I'm just getting to grips with the Linux Terminal but I still make mistakes:
I recently erroneously managed to copy all of the files contained within a directory (including all sub-directories) into ...

By mistake I removed the my "Documents" folder from my "Libraries" The folder still exist however under C:\Users\user\Documents, I didn't delete any files. How can I restore the my "Documents back to ...

I have many folders on my hard drives that contain many media files and logs for old websites I have created for clients that I rarely ever access now.
I want to know aside from compressing them what ...

Windows 8.1. Admin account.
I have a hard drive installed that I use for media (ie. not system files, etc). I was testing various screen capture programs and one of them created a couple of folders ...

I have 1200+ files in my hd, mostly videos, which I backup to an external drive. I sync these files with WinMerge. I have noticed that in one specific folder WinMerge now detects the 4 mp4 files there ...

If we stick an ! character to the front of a directory name, it will be at the top of other directories when sorted.
Is there a character which has the opposite effect? Logically, a tilde (~) should ...

I have a lot of files that I create on my Windows 8 computer and save in my files, but I want to save them to my USB flash drive too. I usually just save the file in my computer and then save it again ...

I have many photos organised in folders. I also have an "Uncategorised" folder for photos before they are organised. I've found that many (but not all) photos in Uncategorised have now been organised ...

When you open a text file in Notepad on Windows, you can move the source file to the Recycle Bin or even permanently delete it. The same is true for WordPad. Why is it that Windows doesn't give you a ...

I had a drive fail a while back. While it was failing, I made a back up to another drive. Now when I try to access those files (they are video files), the video played is a segment from another video ...

I understand that Gmail users in Chrome can drag attachments out of their email and into a sensible place in their filesystem (rather than what normally happens, which is that you get a link on your ...

In 2010 Word, my symbol tab for "close" does not show up in the advanced options - customize quick access tool bar. I am used to using the "close" tab to close out a file. How do I close out a file ...

I'm thinking about making a NAS for my home network and hosting it on a Linux machine, but I was thinking: Since Linux has different file naming limitations than Windows, what will happen when I host ...

The question is about Nemo file manager, which is default for Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon.
Is it possible to achieve behavior similar to google chrome or other browsers? When I have an instanve of chrome ...

I have a large virtualBox virtual machine 55GB approx. This is currently on my external harddrive. The problem is I am not able to copy it from my external USB hard drive into my pc. At around 75% it ...

I sometimes look at the /tmp directory with all those files taking up disk space, and think "maybe I should go in there and do something about it."
On the other hand, in my 10+ years of Linux use, I ...

I have a lot of image files.
I want to look at files' previews in windows file explorer.
Then select files I want, press key combination to send this files to my specific folder.
As if I press right ...